Media Conglomeration

Media conglomeration can produce increased profit margin, vertical integration of media as well as horizontal integration of media. Conglomeration can also fail to successfully accomplish the same objective as a venue of specific concentration.


It affects who owns the media, how it's produced and exported, the content the media provides, and the impact it has on its audiences.

Media conglomeration is affecting countries throughout the world. It is providing international communication and a medium for which information can be transferred easily and efficiently. It can be scene as a positive entity, providing voices across the world and can be seen negatively as well.

Through media conglomeration, smaller companies aren't able to make it in the big arena that larger corporations are. Conglomerates are also fiscally driven, causing the news to be driven to the "bottom line" for whatever can make the largest dollar.

In Iran, there is no chance of media conglomeration because the media is government controlled. Television stations are controlled under the monopoly of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting service (IRIB). Newspaper ownership is controlled by either the IRIB or the IRNA (Islamic Republic News Agency), meaning the mass media in Iran is dictated through the government, leaving diminutive room for oppositional views.

The only way to get media outside of Iran is by using satellites, which are illegal. Recently, news sites such as fararu.com and sahamnews.org have been blocked, leaving no room for questioning whether or not Iran's government is trying to keep their citizens from total knowledge of the revolutions taking place in other countries.

Although media conglomeration can be seen as a good thing to international society as a whole, there is no chance of media conglomeration happening within the borders of Iran.